Which ear

[Guest guest]

I know that it's important that the auditory nerve be stimulated. I

was born with a progressive hearing loss and for the most part always

wore two hearing aids. The hearing loss was about the same in both

ears but was slightly worst in my right ear. I was never able to

discriminate the sounds I heard with just my right ear. I could

discriminate sounds in my left ear (using a hearing aid - even if I

turned off the right hearing aid I could discriminate sounds and

speech with the left ear) Due to an increase in hearing loss my

discrimination and understanding of speech has deteriorated to the

point I qualify for an implant. The hearing and discrimination is

still better on my left ear but only slightly. I am having difficulty

deciding which ear to implant - on one hand I want to preserve the

slight residual hearing and discrimination skills I have for the left

ear --- however I wonder if that ear will respond to the implant

better since it has a history of better discrimination. Has anyone in

this group ever implanted an ear that they could hear sounds but never

could discriminate the sounds with? I hope I am making sense I

confused myself when writing this